Good times with Kim Cattrall
The actor lives between the US, Canada and London.
"My partner thinks I’m too snobby with the things I watch "
• The last great film you saw…
A reissued 1970s film called Wanda by first-time director and star Barbara Loden, who also produced and wrote it. The film is absolutely haunting; it’s about a woman whose life has been following a course of what is expected of her and what men demand of her. It’s beautifully shot and gripping.
• The film you could watch over and over…
Fanny And Alexander by Ingmar Bergman. It’s about family, and I think the best stories come from family.
• The one you’d tell everyone to see…
2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s an extraordinary experience. I saw it in New York when I was a teenager, and it blew me away watching Stanley Kubrick’s interpretation of the future.
• The podcast you loved…
Le Show by Harry Shearer. He’s a brilliant writer and satirist and a brilliant mind. He’s a friend, and whatever he wants to talk about, I want to hear it. He has this innate ability to interview someone or talk about a subject in a way that is illuminating and funny, but never cruel.
• The last recommendation you received…
Avengers: Endgame, recommended by my partner, Russ, who’s attempting to narrow my tastes. He thinks I’m too snobby with what I watch. I hated it! It’s not that it’s bad, it’s just not my kind of movie. I said to
him halfway through, ‘I have to go to the loo,’ and I never came back.
•Top of your TV planner…
Killing Eve. I haven’t seen it and people keep saying, ‘You have to watch it!’ I love Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh, so I can’t wait.
• The last album you loved…
Landfall by Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet; I love all of Laurie’s work. This was such a personal piece for her about the huge storm in downtown New York in 2012. Laurie and her husband, Lou Reed, lost so many things during the storm. I lost photographs and memories, too. We all did. I felt very close to it and it touched me.
• The book that inspired you…
H Is For
Hawk by Helen Macdonald. I lost my dad in 2012 and my brother, through suicide, in 2018, which was devastating and still is. This book had a message I needed to read, hear and experience.
• The ticket you’d love to get your hands on...
Whatever Marianne Elliott is directing. I worked with her on Tennessee Williams’s Sweet Bird
Of Youth in London in 2013. She’s fantastic and I find her so inspiring. She challenges herself and puts herself on that precipice constantly. I’d love to work with her again, if she’ll have me!
• Kim Cattrall stars in Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans, which is in cinemas 26 July